Improvement in cupboard-latches



i `UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD DOEN, OFv NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUPBOARD-LATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,105, dated June 14, 1864.

To all wlw/11, i0 Irl/.my cl2/worn.'

Be itknown that I, EDWARD DOEN, of New Britain, county of Hartford, and State of Conni cticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Cupboard Latches; and Ido hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawing; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use said improvementI will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the drawing, in which the same letters iudicate like parts in each ofthe figures.

The nature of this improvement in clipboardlatches will be fully understood from the specifioation and drawing, in which A is a plate, having a latch guard, a, formed in the center of and at the end of the plate A so as to render it uniform and symmetrical in its appearance when used either for a right 01 left hand door, said plate A and guard a being made or cast whole in one piece of metal and Vof various size, shape, and style which fancy may please to dictate.

and close to one end of the plate, and raised therefrom so as to allow the vibrating latch b to play freely between the inside of the guard and the outside surface of the plate, to which the4 latch is secured bymeans of a screw, pin,-

-rior advantage over others now in use.

I- claim- As a new improved article of manufacture,

a eupboarddateh, substantially as shown and described.

EDWARD DOEN. Witnesses SIDNEY I. WELLS, JEREMY W. BLrss.

a is a latch-guard formed in the center of 

